Advanced Textiles Expo 2026

Michael Woody

CEO, Trans-Tex LLC and Chair of the Rhode Island Textile Innovation Network (RITIN)


Michael McKeldon Woody is CEO of Trans-Tex LLC, a textile company based in Cranston, RI. He is currently chair of the Rhode Island Textile Innovation Network (RITIN), past president of the Narrow Fabrics Institute (NFI), a division of the Advanced Textile Association (ATA), and a past member of former Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo’s Manufacturing Advisory Council. In 2017, his book American Dragon: Winning the Global Manufacturing War Using the Universal Principles of Fewer, Faster, and Finer was named a finalist for Business and Economics Book of the Year by Foreword Indies.

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